JUNE (already?)

June, from the Très riches heures du duc de Berry

The Latin name for June is Junius. Ovid offers multiple etymologies for the name in the Fasti, a poem about the Roman calendar. The first is that the month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, the goddess of marriage and the wife of the supreme deity Jupiter; the second is that the name comes from the Latin word iuniores, meaning “younger ones”, as opposed to maiores (“elders”) for which the preceding month May (Maius) may be named.  According to Plutarch, the month of June is favorable for weddings.

In Iceland, folklore says that if you bathe naked in the morning dew on the morning of June 24, you are supposed to keep aging at bay for longer.

What came to mind for me is the idea that weddings are kind of fairy-tale-like.  What bride doesn’t feel like a fairy princess on her wedding day? wedding04 (And then – real life sets in.)  My personal opinion of marriage is that it is definitely a fairy tale – or some kind of myth that so many of us buy into.  (And enough said about that!)  Here is my drawing for June:

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And here are a few more of my own wedding photos – and it was a magical, fairy-tale-like day for me – and I will always remember it. 

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